How to make Bauhinia bonsai good-looking Bauhinia pot culture method

Bauhinia is a kind of flower variety with high ornamental value, its main ornamental value lies in its flowers, its flowers are small, distributed on the branches, commonly seen in purple, and bloom in early spring every year. Now many people use bauhinia to make potted plants to watch. However, if you want to look good in production, you also need to master some skills.

How to make Bauhinia bonsai look good

1. Bauhinia bonsai generally choose deeper glazed pottery basin or purple sand pottery basin, square, round and oval are more common, and sometimes shallow rectangular basins can be selected. The best color of the basin is light yellow or cyan, which can be set off with branches of purplish red flowers, making it more beautiful.

2. Bauhinia bonsai does not require high soil quality, and can be adapted to slightly acidic or slightly alkaline soil. Potted plants should be cultivated with fertile, loose and permeable rotten leaf soil or Tanghe mud mixed with sandy soil and rice chaff ash.

3. Bauhinia bonsai is usually planted between February and March in spring, when planting, the main root and overlong root system should be truncated, and the branches should be cut short properly, leaving only 3-4-year-old branches as backbone branches. Bauhinia bonsai pose mostly adopts the processing and modeling method of cutting as the main and tie as the auxiliary.

4. in general, it is only necessary to properly climb the main stem into the required posture, and it is more convenient and comfortable to climb with wire, and it is better to carry out it in the rainy season after flowering. The branch shape is pruned combined with climbing, and it is also better to be processed after flowering. Bauhinia bonsai mainly has oblique dry type, curved dry type, hanging branch type, jungle type, etc., with good natural shape, full branches of purple flowers, very beautiful.

Pot culture method of bauhinia

1. Display environment. Bauhinia bonsai should be avoided in sunny and well-ventilated places. Summer does not need shade maintenance, if placed outdoors in winter, need to be placed in the south of the sun, so that Bauhinia bonsai absorb enough light.

2. Watering. Bauhinia is naturally fond of a wet environment, so the potted soil of Bauhinia bonsai needs to be kept slightly moist, but it can not accumulate too much water, which will cause rotten roots. When it is hot in summer, it needs to be watered sooner or later, and the frequency of watering should be gradually reduced in autumn. It can be watered every three to five days in winter, preferably around noon.

3. Fertilization. Bauhinia bonsai needs to be fertilized after flowering, and it is best to apply thin and rotten cake fertilizer and water two or three times. After autumn, putting some phosphorus-rich fertilizers such as feces of chickens, ducks and birds or bone meal in flowerpots can make Bauhinia more pregnant buds and blossom in the spring of the following year.

4. Turn the basin. Bauhinia bonsai had better be turned every two to three years, preferably in autumn, or after flowering. When turning the basin, cut off some of the old roots and overdense roots at the same time, remove 1/2 of the old soil, and replace the fertile and loose culture soil.

How to prune Bauhinia potted plants

1. Shrubby plastic surgery. Generally leave 3-5 trunk, require reasonable distribution, truncation is carried out off the ground, in order to promote branching. In spring, it is necessary to wipe buds properly, and each trunk retains about 3 or 4 branches as the first layer of lateral branches. when pruning during the dormant period, the basic skeleton can be formed. If the branches are scarce, they can also be cut short in early spring to promote branches, or through coring and pruning to promote secondary branches to expand the crown.

2. Arbor plastic surgery. Arbor pruning, generally, first determine the sturdiest branches as the trunk, and then cut short at 50-80cm to cultivate secondary and tertiary main branches. after 2-3 years of pruning, the Arbor-shaped skeleton can be determined gradually, forming a plump and dense crown. After setting the stem, pruning in the dormant period, cutting off withered, diseased branches, juxtaposed, endophytic, crossed branches, etc., retain some of the sturdy sprouting and tillering branches, which can be used to renew and rejuvenate the tree, and cut off the rest of the root sprouting and tillering branches. it is necessary to protect the sturdy flowering old branches and retract some overlong branches.

What about the yellowing of bauhinia potted leaves?

1. Change the basin in time: in view of the phenomenon of hungry yellow, it is necessary to replace a larger flowerpot for Bauhinia in time to cut off aging branches and over-dense branches to prevent nutrient loss.

2. Increase the light: for the shady yellow, the bauhinia should be given more light intensity, and the potted plants should be placed where they can reach the sun. There is no shade in summer, and they should also be placed in the sunny place facing south in winter.

When making bauhinia potted plants, we must pay attention to the choice of soil and pots, and then make different shapes according to our own preferences. Bauhinia potted plants need to be strengthened after production, light, fertilizer and water are the inevitable factors to ensure its growth, so these work must be done in place.